I remember being at a funeral about 7 years ago, standing at the graveside and my tummy was sore with cramps and I needed the toilet for a no.2 but there was no toilet. I kept it in but the longer it went on, the more pain I was in. I needed a toilet. When I got to a toilet, it gave me relief.
Over the years since then, I ha many of these episodes of tummy cramps needing toilet. They don't happen every day. I put it down to PMS, ovulation pains. Sometimes it comes at me out of the blue, other times not. I never got these cramps investigated with my GP until this summer. I don't have a diagnosis yet because I am waiting for some tests. I finally found something that helped. I found eliminating chocolate and sweets from the diet helped enormously and that helped reduce the episodes. What used to happen nearly 2 or 3 times a month, now happens once every few months.
Basically I had two of these episodes over the past week. I do have a viral infection or a cold running through me. The head cold isn't too bad now. On Monday I was walking home from the covid test centre and I was struck with tummy cramps needing toilet. There was no toilet anywhere in sight. Home was too far away. I had to turn around and go into the nearest coffee shop which was about 5 minutes away but every step was agony trying to hold it in. By the time I got to the toilet and dropped my pants it was like and explosion or bomb. It was awful.
I'm just after having another episode of tummy cramps needing toilet but there was someone in the toilet. There was a wait of about minutes but it felt longer and it was torture trying to keep it in.
Does anyone else suffer like this?
It's so debilitating.
I'm not always going to be near a toilet. I hate it.